24h / 12h time trials

Jim said:

In this weeks copy is the write up of the National 24h championship held in
the Shropshire area. The winner clocked up 480 miles in 24 hrs. And Gethin
Butler has done 497 miles in the past.

Better still are the off-road 24hour riders IMO.The Salomon/old Red Bull
solo winner did 17 laps.The team of 4 who won the main event did 25
laps.And that was through some of the worst mud seen in an endurance event
- it was so bad that many teams pulled out in less than 12 hours as it was
so demoralising going through 3 inch of sticky mud.

Quoted message said:

I'm guessing these guys who compete are amateurs,

are they? Everything

Quoted message said:

is relative - I work full time and have 3 little kids, so have not much
time to cycle, but even if I spent hours on end training, I couldn't
possible compete...

They are just different to normal people.I couldnt even stay awake for 24
hours - these dont get off their bike for more than 15 minutes in that
time.Andy Wilkinson has done Lands End to John O'Groats a number of times
- that is over 48 hours non-stop(I think they do stop a couple of times
for a hour).
Alan.

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Jim said:

Hi,

This is a bit of a general question. Having recently starting buying Cycling
Weekly for the Tour de France coverage, I've been reading the rest of the
magazine too.

In this weeks copy is the write up of the National 24h championship held in
the Shropshire area. The winner clocked up 480 miles in 24 hrs. And Gethin
Butler has done 497 miles in the past.

Andy Wilkinson has the records for both 12 and 24 hours with 300 and
525 miles.

He can currently be seen on BBC3 in a repeat of the "Hercules"
endurance contest.

Regards!
Stephen

Steve McGinty said:

Andy Wilkinson has the records for both 12 and 24 hours with 300 and
525 miles.

He also has the outright End-to-End record - 41:04:22 in a fully-faired
Windcheetah, and was half of the crew who hold the mixed tandem record over
the same... Not to mention lapping the Mountain Circuit in the faired
Speedy five minutes quicker than some bloke called Boardman.

He once turned up to a BHPC 50 km hilly time trial and passed me at the top
of the bank heading down into West Auckland. I maxed out at 56 mph while
watching him vanish into the distance. He won by nine minutes...

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Jim said:

Question is, how does anyone get that fit, that driven, that motivated?

Well for a start, you have to like riding your bike a lot. And then that's
just what you do - ride it. A lot. Gethin also rides Audax events which
are non-competitive so it's not just about being the fastest.

Quoted message said:

I'm guessing these guys who compete are amateurs, are they?

Yes. They'll spend a big chunk of their free time riding. Most would ride
to and from work as well.

Ian